THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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FRO M T II E G R A D E S
8th
All old students and employes, as well as many friends in Salem, are
glad to welcome Frank Johnson and Paul Kininnook, who are back
among us after a three month’s vacation spent fishing in the waters
near their home in Alaska. Both boys are of the class of 1913. They
left us with the avowed intention of earning money to pay their ex
penses in school at Salem this winter. We perceive that they have stuck
to their purpose, presume that no "inclement weather” prevented a
good season, and predict that their aspirations will be realized. Such
worthiness of purpose, such strenuous effort against trying circumstan
ces cannot fail to be rewarded.
Frank Johnson, who was graudated from Chemawa last spring, is
back from Alaska and is attending high school at Salem.
The order of reversing details in school has been changed this year.
Instead of the industrial and school detail changing each morning and
noon, as formerly, the same detail that goes to school in the afternoon
also goes to school the next morning. At noon, the detail changes and
the industrial details take their turn of an afternoon and a forenoon at
school. The children like the new way of changing much better than
the old.
The ice plant installed at the school last summer has long been a ne
cessity. Before the installation of the plant special trips were made to
Salem for ice when it was required. Now all the ice needed is fur
nished to the kitchen, dairy, and all other departments requiring it. Bv
its use the meat room can be kept at a temperature of twenty-six de
grees Fahrenheit. Ice is also supplied, at the cost of manufactur
ing, to employes keeping house.
Several of the pupils in the different grades have subscril>ed for the
paper called Current Events. It is a weekly paper and is published in
Springfield, Mass., and Chicago, 111. The little paper is used over the
country in different schools for the benefit of the children. It contains
the most important news, briefly told.
Qirls Hop-Picking
On August the 31st, eightv-five girls went out for hop-picking, alxmt
two and a half miles from school. Monday morning we started pick
ing hops and for the rest of the day all that you could hear was, "wire
down” and "box full.” After supper we all went down to the creek
and a number of girls fell in.
Most of the girls went crawfishing: Maggie Johnson was the chief